Discovery Box| (0.55) | Isa 36:6 |
| Look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If someone leans on it for support, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him! |
| (0.55) | Isa 36:7 |
| Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the Lord our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar.’ |
| (0.55) | Isa 36:10 |
| Furthermore it was by the command of the Lord that I marched up against this land to destroy it. The Lord told me, ‘March up against this land and destroy it!’”’” 1 |
| (0.55) | Isa 36:11 |
| Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, 1 for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect 2 in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” |
| (0.55) | Isa 36:15 |
| Don’t let Hezekiah talk you into trusting in the Lord by saying, “The Lord will certainly rescue us; this city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” |
| (0.55) | Isa 37:3 |
| “This is what Hezekiah says: 1 ‘This is a day of distress, insults, 2 and humiliation, 3 as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through. 4 |
| (0.55) | Isa 37:7 |
| Look, I will take control of his mind; 1 he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down 2 with a sword in his own land.”’” |
| (0.55) | Isa 37:26 |
| 1 Certainly you must have heard! 2 Long ago I worked it out, in ancient times I planned 3 it, and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins. 4 |
| (0.55) | Isa 38:5 |
| “Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor 1 David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life, |
| (0.55) | Isa 39:3 |
| Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say? Where do they come from?” Hezekiah replied, “They come from the distant land of Babylon.” |
| (0.55) | Isa 40:2 |
| “Speak kindly to 1 Jerusalem, 2 and tell her that her time of warfare is over, 3 that her punishment is completed. 4 For the Lord has made her pay double 5 for all her sins.” |
| (0.55) | Isa 40:9 |
| Go up on a high mountain, O herald Zion! Shout out loudly, O herald Jerusalem! 1 Shout, don’t be afraid! Say to the towns of Judah, “Here is your God!” |
| (0.55) | Isa 40:27 |
| Why do you say, Jacob, Why do you say, Israel, “The Lord is not aware of what is happening to me, 1 My God is not concerned with my vindication”? 2 |
| (0.55) | Isa 40:28 |
| Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is an eternal God, the creator of the whole earth. 1 He does not get tired or weary; there is no limit to his wisdom. 2 |
| (0.55) | Isa 41:7 |
| The craftsman encourages the metalsmith, the one who wields the hammer encourages 1 the one who pounds on the anvil. He approves the quality of the welding, 2 and nails it down so it won’t fall over.” |
| (0.55) | Isa 41:13 |
| For I am the Lord your God, the one who takes hold of your right hand, who says to you, ‘Don’t be afraid, I am helping you.’ |
| (0.55) | Isa 41:16 |
| You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the Lord; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel. |
| (0.55) | Isa 41:17 |
| The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched from thirst. I, the Lord, will respond to their prayers; 1 I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them. |
| (0.55) | Isa 41:20 |
| I will do this so 1 people 2 will observe and recognize, so they will pay attention and understand that the Lord’s power 3 has accomplished this, and that the Holy One of Israel has brought it into being.” 4 |
| (0.55) | Isa 41:25 |
| I have stirred up one out of the north 1 and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. 2 He steps on 3 rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay. |
